Xavier Lorphelin

Managing Partner at Serena

📍 France🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 21 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2022
Angel investor🌍 France
18
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5
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9
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2
Late stage
21y
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Board Member
Mar 2022
Supply chains are under pressure due to the increasing volatility of supply and demand, driven by constantly changing social, geopolitical, and economic events. This quickly changing landscape creates unexpected supply chain disruptions in factories, which requires manufacturers to quickly pivot to respond to these changes. Unfortunately, these situations happen much faster than teams can reliably and efficiently plan for. Currently, factory operations teams waste more than 70% of their valuable time piecing together inaccurate and incomplete data to respond to production blockers. Pelicos supply chain operations management platform gives factory teams the agility and resilience to quickly respond to any supply chain disruptions, and act fast to mitigate their impact. Give your teams access to a single source of truth to anticipate bottlenecks, prioritize corrective actions, speed up cross-functional collaboration, and simulate alternative production and repair scenarios. Within 10 weeks of having implemented Pelico, global, market-leading companies like Safran, Collins Aerospace, and Cartier have reduced their parts shortage by 37%, increased their on-time deliveries by 15%, and reduced their MRO cycles by 42%
Impact investor
Oct 2021
Accélérer la transition agroécologique en France en facilitant l’installation de la nouvelle génération d’agriculteurs et d’agricultrices, grâce à lépargne citoyenne, cest notre raison dêtre chez FEVE 💪 FEVE est une entreprise de l’économie sociale et solidaire qui apporte une solution de financement aux futurs agriculteurs et agricultrices via lépargne citoyenne. Grâce à notre foncière, vous pouvez investir votre épargne pour financer des fermes agroécologiques partout en France. Vous avez un projet agricole ? La foncière solidaire achète le foncier que vous avez identifié et le met à disposition en location pour permettre une installation plus sereine tout en vous laissant la possibilité de devenir propriétaire plus tard. Rendez vous sur notre site 😉
early stageFarming
Board Observer
Jun 2021
Launched in 2020, Memo Bank is an independent French bank accredited as a credit institution by the European Central Bank and regulated by the ACPR. Through its cutting-edge core banking platform, Memo Bank delivers an overhaul for SMEs, enabling them to manage their liquidity and transactions in both a centralised and integrated manner, while providing quick access to lending. Since its inception, Memo Bank has been taking actions to reduce its carbon footprint, as well as that of its clients, employees, and the entire banking market"
mid stageBanking
Board Member
Jun 2021
Electra is an european charge point operator. The company deploys and operates fast charging points with a clear ambition : to facilitate the adoption of electric vehicles through a vast, rapid, and high-performing charging network. Electra has earned the trust of major corporations such as Vinci Autoroutes, Stellantis, G7, AccorInvest, LSGI, Altarea, Indigo, Louvre Hotels Group, Primonial REIM France, Groupe Chopard, Jardiland, and even the Delhaize Group in Belgium. With a team of 200 expert employees, Electra makes significant investments in innovation and research to provide a unique user experience: rich, intuitive, and customizable mobile interfaces. Electra operates in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Spain and is committed to expanding its network to 15,000 fast charging points by 2030. www.go-electra.com
Board Member
May 2021
Founded in 2019 to address the insurability of risks worsened by climate change, Descartes’ mission is to help companies and communities build resilience in a world at risk. Descartes is a global corporate insurance specialist working exclusively with brokers to protect their corporate and public sector clients against climate, cyber and other emerging risks. At the forefront of AI and data analysis, Descartes utilizes cutting-edge technology combined with data from world-class research institutions to model, assess and manage risks. Descartes boasts the largest team of scientists in the global insurance industry, comprising over 150 experts in meteorology, climatology, physics, data science, software engineering, DevOps, modeling, and underwriting. This diverse expertise enables us to develop transparent, tailored solutions to the challenges posed by emerging risks, and offer a range of innovative and cost-effective insurance products designed to meet clients’ needs—often through cutting-edge parametric structures. With a global footprint and a strong foothold in the U.S., Descartes serves a diverse client base across 60+ countries, operating from 20+ offices in Europe, Asia, Oceania, and North America. Through corporate brokers, Descartes has already delivered over $15 billion in capacity to its clients. The insurer is recognized for its technical excellence and achieved a +71 NPS score in 2025. The Descartes group includes Descartes Insurance, a full-stack insurer operating in several European markets, and Descartes Underwriting, a global MGA backed by a panel of tier-one risk carriers. The company has secured over $141M in funding from prominent investors, including Highland Europe, BlackFin, Serena, Cathay, Eurazeo, and Battery Ventures.
mid stageInsurance
Board Member
Jul 2019
We are the ultimate technological platform for lift maintenance companies. uptime has developed the digital solution to avoid breakdowns and make all lift maintenance services transparent. In 2021, 63% of lifts worldwide are maintained by companies independent of major manufacturers. uptime helps these companies make their digital transition a success. Our technology assists technicians to avoid breakdowns and allows companies to communicate effectively with their end customers, for greater transparency and organic growth.
Board Member
Apr 2018
Booksy (ex Kiute), c’est le logiciel n°1 mondial de la réservation en ligne pour le secteur de la beauté qui permet à des dizaines de milliers de gérants d’instituts de mieux vivre de leur passion.
Board Member
Apr 2018
From empowering entrepreneurs to build successful businesses, to supporting their clients to arrange me time moments, we’re in the business of elevating people - helping them to thrive and feel fantastic. Lifting others up can be hard, heavy work, and we passionately believe that the sense of purpose and personal satisfaction this brings are worth it. What started in Poland is now an international, cloud-based marketplace that’s scaling quickly. We bring together entrepreneurs in the beauty, health and wellness industry with their customers on a product that connects creative communities and opens up worlds of opportunities.
Board Member
Jul 2016
In today’s world of always-on online consumption and commerce, consumers are demanding what they want, when they want it. Salsify empowers brand manufacturers, distributors and retailers to win on the digital shelf. Salsifys Product Experience Management platform combines PIM, Syndication and Automation with core commerce capabilities designed to enable sales both across retailer/distributor channels as well as marketplaces, social commerce, and direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites. The worlds biggest brands including Mars, LOréal, Coca-Cola and Bosch use Salsify every day to stand out on the digital shelf. To learn more about Salsify, visit www.salsify.com To join our team, visit www.salsify.com/careers To subscribe to our blog visit blog.salsify.com
Board Member
Apr 2016
TVTY empowers marketers with actionable intelligence to measure and optimize global TV advertising. TVTY’s solutions allow brands and their agencies to measure the real impact of their TV campaigns on their business outcomes (website traffic, app downloads, in-store conversions, and more), and to reinforce TV’s efficiency by activating digital media in complementarity with TV. TVTY is a subsidiary of Nielsen (NYSE: NLSN), a leading global data and analytics company. // La plateforme de TVTY permet aux marques et à leurs agences média de mesurer l’impact réel de leurs campagnes TV (via le trafic généré sur leur site internet, le téléchargement de leur app, les achats effectués en magasin…) et de renforcer lefficacité de la TV par l’activation de campagnes digitales complémentaires. TVTY est une division de Nielsen, entreprise cotée au NYSE, leader mondial de l’analyse d’audience.
Board Member
Jun 2015
Cheerz is a printing company dedicated to all these little moments of life, that we capture everyday, with our mobile ! It’s a new way to print your photos ! It’s fun, beautiful, and very very cool to use. Because today people love to share, we created tools that give access to your photos from Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Dropbox… And those of your friends :) It’s a website, it’s a mobile app, it’s an iPad app and it’s from Paris. <a href=https://fr.glassdoor.be/Présentation/Travailler-chez-Cheerz-EI_IE1278949.16,22.htm><img src=https://fr.glassdoor.be/api/widget/verticalStarRating.htm?e=1278949></a>
Board Member
2015
Lulu dans ma rue réinvente la conciergerie de quartier ! Pour chaque petit souci du quotidien (fixer une tringle à rideau, arroser vos plantes pendant les vacances, vous aider pour un déménagement, installer votre box…), votre concierge de quartier vous trouve les personnes quil vous faut, près de chez vous. Ces personnes s’appellent les Lulus, ils ont 1.000 talents et adorent rendre service ! La première conciergerie Lulu a ouvert en mai 2015 à St Paul (4e arrondissement de Paris) dans un ancien kiosque à journaux, recyclé sur mesure pour l’occasion. En quelques mois, c’est un succès gigantesque ! Le kiosque devient aussi très vite un lieu central de la vie de quartier : bibliothèque participative, fêtes & apéros de quartier, ateliers, papotage, cafés et animations en tout genre... cest un kiosque vivant ! Fin 2016, Lulu dans ma rue commence son déploiement dans tout Paris grâce à la signature d’une convention avec la Ville de Paris. C’est le début d’une grande épopée ... Aujourd’hui, Lulu dans ma rue c’est une dizaine kiosques à Paris, un tout 1er kiosque à Lyon & plus de 800 Lulus avec 400.000 services rendus. Si vous êtes intéressé(e) par le projet, par le modèle de conciergerie de quartier, si vous avez besoin dun coup de main ou juste envie de papoter, nhésitez pas à passer au kiosque : on offre le café ! À très, très bientôt,
Board Member
Dec 2014
Dataiku is the Platform for AI Success, the enterprise orchestration layer for building, deploying, and governing AI. In a single environment, teams design and operate AI agents, analytics, and machine learning with the transparency, collaboration, and control enterprises require. For more than a decade, Dataiku has helped organizations turn data, analytics, and AI into measurable business value. As the market has evolved from analytics to machine learning to generative AI and agents, Dataiku has enabled customers to stay ahead—operationalizing new technologies while maintaining stability, governance, and trust. Sitting above data platforms, cloud infrastructure, and AI services, Dataiku connects the full enterprise AI stack, enabling organizations to run AI across multi-vendor environments with centralized governance and oversight, at scale. Today, many of the world’s leading companies rely on Dataiku to deploy AI applications and agents in some of the most complex and highly regulated environments — turning AI into an enduring source of performance, competitive advantage, and long-term business value.
Board Member
Oct 2013
Seiza is the Recruitment Automation Platform 100% dedicated to hourly positions, enabling accelerated hiring. At Seiza, we believe that the key to successful recruitment lies in speed. Our mission is to help recruiters become hyper-responsive by automating the entire recruitment process, while offering the best possible experience to candidates. Our SaaS platform allows for fast and effortless recruitment by: - Obtaining qualified applications in the shortest possible time thanks to the power of social media - Automating all time-consuming tasks such as selection, skills validation, interview scheduling, and document collection, allowing recruiters to spend more time on what matters most: meeting candidates. - Engaging in personalized and real-time 24/7 discussions with candidates using the best communication channels. - Offering the best possible candidate experience by adapting to their pace and habits. - Monitoring recruitment performance and deadlines to optimize processes. Extremely user-friendly, Seiza is 100% adapted to frontline workers. With Seiza: - Attract and hire 2x faster. - Reduce your recruitment costs by 25%. - Improve candidate satisfaction. Launched in 2010, Seiza accelerates hiring for 400 companies in Europe and the United States in various industries (food production, transportation, logistics, retail, hospitality & restaurants, healthcare, staffing, construction...).
Board Member
Aug 2011
Bonitasoft fully supports digital operations and IT modernization with Bonita, an open-source and extensible platform for automation and optimization of business processes. The Bonita platform accelerates development and production with clear separation between capabilities for visual programming and for coding. Bonita integrates with existing information systems, orchestrates heterogeneous systems, and provides deep visibility into processes across the organization. For Q&A and discussions about the Bonita platform visit our Community at https://community.bonitasoft.com/ You can also contact us at marketing@bonitasoft.com. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram!
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Board Member
Mar 2022
Supply chains are under pressure due to the increasing volatility of supply and demand, driven by constantly changing social, geopolitical, and economic events. This quickly changing landscape creates unexpected supply chain disruptions in factories, which requires manufacturers to quickly pivot to respond to these changes. Unfortunately, these situations happen much faster than teams can reliably and efficiently plan for. Currently, factory operations teams waste more than 70% of their valuable time piecing together inaccurate and incomplete data to respond to production blockers. Pelicos supply chain operations management platform gives factory teams the agility and resilience to quickly respond to any supply chain disruptions, and act fast to mitigate their impact. Give your teams access to a single source of truth to anticipate bottlenecks, prioritize corrective actions, speed up cross-functional collaboration, and simulate alternative production and repair scenarios. Within 10 weeks of having implemented Pelico, global, market-leading companies like Safran, Collins Aerospace, and Cartier have reduced their parts shortage by 37%, increased their on-time deliveries by 15%, and reduced their MRO cycles by 42%
2021
Impact investor
Oct 2021
Accélérer la transition agroécologique en France en facilitant l’installation de la nouvelle génération d’agriculteurs et d’agricultrices, grâce à lépargne citoyenne, cest notre raison dêtre chez FEVE 💪 FEVE est une entreprise de l’économie sociale et solidaire qui apporte une solution de financement aux futurs agriculteurs et agricultrices via lépargne citoyenne. Grâce à notre foncière, vous pouvez investir votre épargne pour financer des fermes agroécologiques partout en France. Vous avez un projet agricole ? La foncière solidaire achète le foncier que vous avez identifié et le met à disposition en location pour permettre une installation plus sereine tout en vous laissant la possibilité de devenir propriétaire plus tard. Rendez vous sur notre site 😉
early stageFarming
Board Observer
Jun 2021
Launched in 2020, Memo Bank is an independent French bank accredited as a credit institution by the European Central Bank and regulated by the ACPR. Through its cutting-edge core banking platform, Memo Bank delivers an overhaul for SMEs, enabling them to manage their liquidity and transactions in both a centralised and integrated manner, while providing quick access to lending. Since its inception, Memo Bank has been taking actions to reduce its carbon footprint, as well as that of its clients, employees, and the entire banking market"
mid stageBanking
Board Member
Jun 2021
Electra is an european charge point operator. The company deploys and operates fast charging points with a clear ambition : to facilitate the adoption of electric vehicles through a vast, rapid, and high-performing charging network. Electra has earned the trust of major corporations such as Vinci Autoroutes, Stellantis, G7, AccorInvest, LSGI, Altarea, Indigo, Louvre Hotels Group, Primonial REIM France, Groupe Chopard, Jardiland, and even the Delhaize Group in Belgium. With a team of 200 expert employees, Electra makes significant investments in innovation and research to provide a unique user experience: rich, intuitive, and customizable mobile interfaces. Electra operates in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Spain and is committed to expanding its network to 15,000 fast charging points by 2030. www.go-electra.com
Board Member
May 2021
Founded in 2019 to address the insurability of risks worsened by climate change, Descartes’ mission is to help companies and communities build resilience in a world at risk. Descartes is a global corporate insurance specialist working exclusively with brokers to protect their corporate and public sector clients against climate, cyber and other emerging risks. At the forefront of AI and data analysis, Descartes utilizes cutting-edge technology combined with data from world-class research institutions to model, assess and manage risks. Descartes boasts the largest team of scientists in the global insurance industry, comprising over 150 experts in meteorology, climatology, physics, data science, software engineering, DevOps, modeling, and underwriting. This diverse expertise enables us to develop transparent, tailored solutions to the challenges posed by emerging risks, and offer a range of innovative and cost-effective insurance products designed to meet clients’ needs—often through cutting-edge parametric structures. With a global footprint and a strong foothold in the U.S., Descartes serves a diverse client base across 60+ countries, operating from 20+ offices in Europe, Asia, Oceania, and North America. Through corporate brokers, Descartes has already delivered over $15 billion in capacity to its clients. The insurer is recognized for its technical excellence and achieved a +71 NPS score in 2025. The Descartes group includes Descartes Insurance, a full-stack insurer operating in several European markets, and Descartes Underwriting, a global MGA backed by a panel of tier-one risk carriers. The company has secured over $141M in funding from prominent investors, including Highland Europe, BlackFin, Serena, Cathay, Eurazeo, and Battery Ventures.
mid stageInsurance
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